Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To excel or surpass in reasoning.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To excel or surpass in reasoning; to reason better than.
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- verb transitive To
surpass inreasoning ; to reason better than.
Etymologies
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Examples
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When Truth can change, its Revelation can change; when human reason can outreason the Omniscient, then may it supersede His work.
The Idea of a University Defined and Illustrated: In Nine Discourses Delivered to the Catholics of Dublin John Henry Newman 1845
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When he found that they could outreason him, he said, rather petulantly, 'What is the use of your talking?
History Of The Missions Of The American Board Of Commissioners For Foreign Missions To The Oriental Churches, Volume I. Rufus Anderson 1838
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VenomFangX, unable to actually outargue and outreason Thunderf00t, made a series of legal accusations, that Thunderf00t was violating copyright, and convinced Youtube to briefly yank his account.
Pharyngula 2008
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